Hesham El-Rewini is the new provost at Marymount University in Arlington beginning this month. El-Rewini comes to the university after serving at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks since 2008, where he worked as dean of the college of engineering and mines as well as senior vice provost (2017-18). Before UND, El-Rewini served […]
Month: July 2019
Doctoral cybersecurity students to present at Cybersecurity Summit
Doctorate of Science in Cybersecurity (D.Sc.) students Zelalem Mengistu, Pipop Nuangpookka, Gregory Liu and Phuong Nguyen have been invited to present their work on “Hardware Tampering Security Risks in the Supply Chain” at McAfee’s 2019 MPOWER Cybersecurity Summit in Las Vegas. The summit is an annual gathering of thought leaders who collaborate to identify best practices in […]
New Marymount Provost brings leadership, experience to new role
Marymount is proud to welcome the university’s new Provost, Hesham El-Rewini, Ph.D., P.E., who officially begins his duties on campus this week. Dr. El-Rewini is a proven leader in higher education, and assumes his new position with nearly 30 years of experience at both private and public universities. He also brings to Marymount a successful […]
Interprofessional Education Course Supports School Community in Panama
In the Spring 2019 semester, ten Marymount pre-service special education teachers, nursing, and health profession students worked together to support the San Pedro Nolasco School, a small Catholic school in one of the poorest provinces in Panama. These students were part of a Marymount course, ED 540 – Burunga, Panama with San Pedro Nolasco School, through […]
Bishop of Arlington welcomes master’s students in Catholic School Leadership Program
Master’s students in Marymount’s Catholic School Leadership Program are on campus for the next two weeks, and Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington welcomed them on Monday with an Opening Mass at the university’s Sacred Heart of Mary Chapel. The 36-credit Administration and Supervision master’s degree program prepares students to be administrators in […]
Washington Business Journal: Marymount’s president intends to double the school’s size. Here’s her plan.
Irma Becerra hit the ground running the moment she took over the Marymount University presidency. She and her team crafted a new strategic plan, a framework that shows exactly where the Catholic university’s new leader aspires to take it: Bigger. As Becerra approaches the end of her first year leading the Arlington college, a role […]
WashingtonExec: NVTC Announces Board Members
The Northern Virginia Technology Council has elected a crop of returning and new board members. There are 75 voting members on NVTCs Board as well as chair emeriti, honorary members and members of the board’s Senior Advisory Group. The officers of the fiscal year 2019-20 board of directors are: Chair: Rich Montoni, MAXIMUS President and CEO: Bobbie […]
Doctoral student chosen to share cybersecurity research in October conference
Ana Valentin, a doctoral student in Cybersecurity at Marymount, has been selected to present her research at the 2019 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference this October in Bellevue, Wash. The conference, sponsored by the American Statistical Association, aims to bring together hundreds of female statistical practitioners and data scientists to highlight their achievements […]
